Artificial Eye are pleased to announce director Maïwenn’s gripping police drama POLISSE is set to open in UK cinemas on 15 June 2012. Premiering in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011, this brave and at times harrowing feature follows the reality of the Child Protection Unit in Paris, delving in to the complex lives of the officers and the cases they cover.
The daily grind for the police officers of the Child Protection Unit - taking in child molesters, busting underage pickpockets and chewing over relationship issues at lunch; interrogating abusive parents, taking statements from children, confronting the excesses of teen sexuality, enjoying solidarity with colleagues and laughing uncontrollably at the most unthinkable moments. Knowing the worst exists and living with it. How do these police officers balance their private lives and the reality they confront every working day? Fred (JOEY STARR), the group’s hypersensitive wild card is going to have a hard time facing the scrutiny of Melissa (MAÏWENN), a photographer on a Ministry of the Interior assignment to document the unit.
